Too often history is lost and forgotten, and with it the potential for future generations to learn from the past. The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts, or IDIA Lab, wants to not only recover the lost artifacts of history, but also to recreate exact digital replicas of them in their original environments, allowing us to experience and appreciate them in a way which has not been possible until now.

So, now you can experience the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in all its original glory and visit an exact replica of a Japanese temple complete with Buddha statues in their original historical contexts.
IDIA Lab is a collaborative research and design laboratory exploring the intersections between art, science and technology, and IDIA in Blue Mars was created by a collaborative team of IDIA faculty, staff, students and external partners. IDIA Lab Director John Fillwalk explains, “IDIA Lab is an academic research and hybrid design lab – we offer curriculum through other academic units such as Architecture, Art and Music. We work closely with graduate and undergraduate students in those areas in providing them experiential learning and research opportunities connected to our projects – some of which are student driven.”

Other future projects will include the launch of an open virtual campus for use by educators interested in engaging Blue Mars as a platform for learning, virtual interactive and immersive art installations – including hybrid reality approaches which unite the physical and virtual, and in designing robust connectivity and integration with other information and media sets.
Check out IDIA now in Blue Mars! For more information on IDIA Lab, visit http://idialab.org/.
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